On April 17th Mr Obama himself lashed out at Mr Trump's video, which quickly went viral. First half in the video is a graphics and sound are very "Obama" explanation: "this time, you may see us about we never said the stone hammers, for example 'trump silly X'." Then the picture was split in two, and the film director Jordan Peele appeared on the right side of the screen, and his voice and mouth were perfectly implanted in Obama's image.
This is the video, launched by BuzzFeed union Peele and monkey claw, which has applied DeepFakes, a controversial but widely used post-production software. Video clips can present a you never said, something you've never done before, such as Mr Obama this piece of video, the price is only 56 hours of machining clips and a professional video editing assistant.
In fact, this kind of "graft" is nothing new. In some porn movies, celebrities have nothing to do with celebrities. Technology, especially artificial intelligence, has developed today, and the practical use of technology often backfires.
FakeApp is the best way to do this, and FakeApp is the best way to do it. The President, celebrities and public figures have become key targets, and video, which relies on mobile phones, has been circulating on Reddit and Discord.
The Internet has always had the genes of postmodern revelry, from the phishing sites of Russian robots to the addictive operation of Facebook's information flow, which is the current media currency. Identity has become highly mobile, anonymous is creating vulgarity and confusion, fraudsters can steal a full picture of people, and deepness seems to have reached the pinnacle of Internet history.
The word "real" became powerless.
Russian writer vladimir nabokov once said that "real" is a few words that are meaningless without quotation marks. He makes an ironic metaphor: you and I look at one thing at the same time, how do you know what we see is the same? Also, based on the rationality and the empirical, the media, the government and the integration of academic organization is trying to help the public opinion, teach us to correctly describe the world, even if the fragile public opinion is step by step towards collapse in these years. Social media has ushered us into a new era in which the information environment of everyone is rife with inherent biases and inconsistencies. Mr Trump's connivance of lies and intrigue has also led to an era of non-truth accelerating.
But soon, it seems, we are going to usher in a period of innocence. The world we live in is different, in other words, the real world crash is not far off.
We rely on reality, we crave reality, as if we were living in a world depicted by Abraham zapruder. The fact that President Kennedy was assassinated and the 8mm home video camera captured by the Dallas tailor is evidence of this. In the United States, not the authority of the edited video, because cynicism, the public media, its processing has produced on the fact that blind and irrational emotions, is also the nearly hundred years of advertising, publicity and exaggerated the excessive reflection of TV news.
Every time a scandal has been "recorded" it stirs up widespread anger, and in the last two presidential elections, these real images have played an important role. In 2012, mitt romney at a fundraiser in Florida denounced 47% of americans support barack Obama, accusing them of is the federal government to raise the weak, just captured this scene of the bartender, and there is no doubt that destroyed the mitt romney's presidential campaign. If just record some words, may not produce such effects, and this from the perspective of indirect shooting video, recording the jingle of tableware collision sound, back and forth in the service novice holding a paper towel, persuasive far more than the words.
In the Hollywood documentary, trump boasted about sexual harassment of a woman, but he was not affected. Fortunately, the incident became the detonate other social conflict too - a record player Ray Rice from the hotel elevator out of the wife's in a coma for extended surveillance video exposure, raises the NFL domestic violence incident response to rumors already a long time; In 2016, a white police officer in Minnesota shot and killed a black Philando Castile. Castile's girlfriend recorded the whole thing and put video on Facebook. About the police brutality, previous reports have not been sparked public anger, but this period of the viral video only let politicians, and even a few tough conservative commentators realized for a long time they ignore the abuse problem.
We believe in what our senses and eyes see, but the emergence of these fake video can take advantage of the public's mind. Aviv Ovadya of the university of Michigan calls it "information apocalypse". These fake video will only bring more unrest. "Pizza" (4 chan website invent the donations large comet pizza shopkeeper John Podesta of child abuse addiction, top Democrats can't get away) in the event, if join the boss when editing color slanted looked at the images of children, such as false news surely will trigger a new round of public sentiment.
But the crux of the matter is not just the spread of fake news, but fake video will make us believe that it is not true. Politicians and propagandists will take full advantage of such scepticism. The suspect can easily veto a video of wrongdoing and make a malicious hoax. It is this strategy that Mr Trump has used, although he has previously admitted that "going to Hollywood" video's authenticity is now privately leading the public to doubt that video is not his real voice.
Artificial intelligence speeds up the real world.
In other words, faking video will eventually destroy our belief that it will no longer recognize a strong consensus on accepted reality. "For a long time, we have trusted video to show the real world, which is a lucky thing," said Google scientist Ian Goodfellow in the MIT technology review.
The purpose of artificial intelligence is not to let the real world collapse, but it is indeed the result of a number of technological achievements, at least inadvertently. We think silicon valley's story began in the 1960 s the international advanced research foundation, the foundation and the legendary engineering laboratory, not far away at Stanford university, focusing on LSD (LSD diethylamine, a hallucinogen) experiment, around the technical personnel is inevitably borrow the name of science, participate in hallucinogenic behavior research, they want to invent a new machine, like a drug to realize people's consciousness.
In this way, the computer can tear a hole in reality and help people free themselves from the daily grind and devote their energy to other things. Steve jobs said that taking LSD was one of his "two or three most important experiences in life".
Real and fake video, not the technical people who let us out of the real end result. VR is an example of creating a scene in another space that "cheats" vision and senses through the eyes and handles. The video game is to place players in alternate scenarios and implant another narrative. However, even if the game is addictive and has not yet fully realized the immersive experience, VR may be able to achieve this effect, allowing people to see or fully perceive the world of the role of the game. After the first application of VR technology decades ago, Timothy Leary, a proponent of hallucinogens, said VR was "a new LSD hallucinogen."
VR technology has made the world a more interesting place, but if you hype up the expansion of VR, such as personal computers and social media, it may turn VR technology into a huge industry. It is also easy for consumers to be taken over by companies such as Google and Facebook, and the "reverse facts" of VR technology will undoubtedly allow it to further manipulate consumers. VR stylist has said, in some horrible experience, after many consumer to remove equipment still has a strong emotional response, and studies have shown that after the user to return to the real world, VR still affects their behavior, let them make more or less altruistic behavior.
German researchers trying to crack the VR ethic has warned that VR "comprehensive", could have "a powerful mental or behavioral manipulation ability, especially of business, politics, religion, and government is behind the support". "There has never been a medium that is so truly beautiful and so vulnerable in the face of terror," Jaron Lanier, a VR pioneer, said in a recent research report. VR is testing us and amplifying our character more than any other medium.
Maybe society will find a way to solve these problems, maybe we can learn to be critical when driving it. But so far, human face showed nearly limitless susceptibility as a cheat and fool - easily into their faith or projection of the world, no matter how strange or how many errors. The government's response to social challenges in the face of new technology has been slower and slower, perhaps to avoid it this time. What constitutes the real world? We can't analyze it from the epistemological level: it is also a political issue and requires the government to answer some of the deepest questions.
A few people may have the time or ability to separate fantasies from the truth, but we want most is the problem of outsourcing, let the newspaper or university, these trustworthy, after training, the knowledge community reconstruction of cultural authority. Perhaps the big tech companies, aware of the crisis, are also responsible. For example, it is easy to suppress the spread of video after mastering the most important entrance to news and information, but at the same time, they need to take on the social responsibility they are avoiding now.
The U.S. presidential election in 2016, Russia via Facebook intervention, Elon Musk to confess his understanding of human life, he spoke of a circle is very popular in his Oxford philosopher's theory: "we all live in the computer virtual world, as if the role of science fiction movie or video games, we are living in the real world of possibilities but billions of one of the points." If these tech leaders don't believe in the real world, we may no longer want to get out of the current mess.